"7 August, 12 Charles II.â€â€Recognizances, taken before Richard Powell esq. J. P., of John Cutler of St. James's Clerkenwell labourer and Leonard Williams of Paul's Covent Garden co. Midd. chirurgeon, in the sum of ten pounds each ; For the appearance of Margery Staples, wife of William Staples of St. James's Clerkenwell labourer, at the next S. P. for Middlesex 'to answer William Planer for selling her servant Ann Parker for a slave to Virginia.' S. P. R., 28 Aug., 12 Charles II." (1)
(1) John Cordy Jeaffreson, Middlesex County Records, Vol. 3 (London: The Middlesex County Records Society, 1888), 306.
(2) Peter Wilson Coldham, "The 'Spiriting' of London Children to Virginia: 1648-1685," The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 83, No. 3 (July 1975): 283.